Tele Portrait

Tele Portrait

What is a good cheap canon lens for wedding/portrait work?

One of my friends is letting me photograph her wedding, and she can’t afford to pay me more then $300 so I’m not going to go all out and buy a new body/ expensive lens ect..and I do plan on buying a flash.
I have a 50mm 1.8 for the close ups, but I need a good tele lens for under $300. I’m using a Canon Rebel xs. I would also like to be able to use it for portrait work. One of my friends uses the Sigma 70-300 for Canon, would that be a good one to look at?
Thanks!

I have a 28-100 that works really well for macro and for portrait. are you using more than one camera body or will you have to switch the lenses out during the ceremony.
the 70-300 wont be much use for the close up stuff – but it should work well as a telephoto.
What sort of flash are you buying – for only 300 it sounds like you are not going to break even if you buy a new lens and a new flash unit.

the link below has some photography equipment review sites in it – you should take a look around at some of those forums (you don’t have to necessarily buy a canon lens for your canon camera)